Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

There is no State in the Union, no coun-
Try upon the continent no section of coun-
cry in any State, or geographical division of
the continent, that can compare with
northern and Central California for salu-
brity of climate, healthfulness, variety of
pleasing shadings in climate, or for attrac-
tive health giving summer and winter re-
sorts We make this assertion with full
knowledge of the claims of all other Sec
tons, from Florida to southern California,
and from the Georgia coast to the Bay of
San Diego
Not infrequentlY, however, such passages
as these take place between residents of this
section and people at the East when the
former visit there:
why don't you come to California;"
"To California What, in winter? Why
It is in the same latitude as my own North
ern home, where it freezes so hard you
can't draw long breath for fear your nos
rils will set.
" But you forget that it is not question
of latitude in this case. We have in Califor-
MIA no winter practically"
No winter"
Exactly. In all the great valleys there
is no such season as you here denominate
winter"
"But how about your snow-clad noun
tains?n
True the upper Sierras are for few
months clothed, at the greatest altitude,
with mantels of snow. But you should
know that these no more stand for eli
matte indices with us than do the white
capped Alps for the sunny plains of Italy.
Here we are to understand that south
ern California is bathed in eternal sum-
mer, but that your north section is as with
US, but somewhat modified by heightened
temperature and absence of billiards."
AND THIS Is COMMON ERROR
At the East. To the dissipation OF that
erroneous impression and the pointing out
of the fact that for winter resorts, we are in
Central and northern California more
favored than any section of country on the
continent, we propose to devote some space.
Let the Eastern reader kindly take the map
of the State and follow US.
If we begin at line cutting the State,
from the southern margin of Monterey
Bay at the town Of Monterey due northeast,
we shall place about one-half of the State
20 the north of that imaginary boundary.
Beginning upon that line we find as we
move the finger northwardly, that we have
within the division the n0rlherly portions
of Monterey and San Benito counties,
nearly all of MERGED and Mariposa and
part of Mono and all of Tuolumne, Stan
zslaus, Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Santa
Cruz, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda,
Contra Costa, Marin, Alpine, Ell Dorado,
Amador, Sacramento, SolanO, Napa, Sono-
ma, Lake, Yolo, Suffer, Placer, Nevada,
Sierra, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, Mendocino
Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama, Plumas, Las
sen, Shasta Modoc, Siskiyou and Del
Norte, or parts Of five and
ALL OF fHIRTY-sIX COUNTIES
Of the fifty-two of the State, and these con-
stftute Central and northern California,
and contain, as they always will, the major
portion of the population of the State.
As a convenient method to clear under
standing of what we say in this paper, let
us make the following groupings of these
counties, which will serve to guide the
reader intelligently upon the plane of the
argument we make: